Incident 1653: Social Media Recommendation Algorithms Allegedly Repeatedly Exposed 13-Year-Old Blake Gallier to Suicide-Related Videos Before Her Death

Description: Before her death on October 30, 2025, 13-year-old Blake Gallier reportedly viewed and reposted social-media videos normalizing suicide. After examining her phone, her family alleged that recommendation algorithms had repeatedly surfaced similar material. The platform or platforms involved have not been publicly identified, and an inquest into her death remains pending.
Editor Notes: The incident ID date is 10/30/2025; the ID itself was created 08/20/2026.

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Incident ID
1653
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2025-10-30
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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Podcast: Blake's Pink Promise charity set up by mum and sister of Northfleet teenager who took her own life after viewing 'disturbing'
music.amazon.es · 2026

AIID editor's note: Please see the original source to listen to the podcast.

The family of a Kent teenager have told KentOnline it wasn't until after her death they realised how much disturbing content she was viewing online.

Blake Gallier …

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Girl, 13, ‘was fed suicide videos by algorithms’ before death
thetimes.com · 2026

A schoolgirl found dead at her home weeks after her 13th birthday had been fed a stream of "disturbing" social media videos that normalised suicide, her family say.

Blake Gallier, from Northfleet, Kent, had not appeared to have problems wit…

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TRUE AGONY My little sister killed herself at 13… I didn’t know why – then I checked her phone and saw all the disturbing videos
thesun.co.uk · 2026

FUNNY, extroverted and happy. 

Those are just some of the words the family of Blake Gallier, from Northfleet, Kent, use to describe her.

But tragically the 13-year-old was found dead at her own home on October 30 last year just one month af…

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